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Club Competitions

Throughout the season we host a number of Club Competitions as well as some Inter-Club Battles.

A range of images from both our own Club Competitions and the Inter-Club Battles can be viewed in our Galleries section along with our recent Club Competition Results by clicking on the links to your right.

Club Competitions are designed to allow members to pitch their best images up against other members. We hold 5 General Competitions as well as 1 Annual Competition per season.

General Competitions:

These are divided into four categories Open Print, Open Digitally Projected, Set Subject Print and Set Subject Digitally Projected.

Set Subjects are decided by member vote each season and can be found within the latest news section of the website or the members handbook.

Members can enter 1 image per category.

Entries to any competition may be colour or monochrome, unless otherwise stated.

Entries are judged by an experienced independent judge who will provide a detailed critique on each image and award positions from Commended, Highly Commended, Third, Second and First place.

Points are awarded for each position and the aggregate winner for each category will be calculated once all 5 general Competitions are complete.

Annual Competitions:

Annual Competitions are divided into a range of categories which can vary year to year. Details of the categories are published in the members handbook at the start of each season.

Members can enter 1 image per category.

Entries are judged by an experienced independent judge who will provide a detailed critique on each image and award positions from Commended, Highly Commended, Third, Second and First place.

Winners of the Annual Competitions are awarded with a trophy.

Inter-Club Battles:

We currently participate in four Inter-Club Battles each season. These Battles give members the chance to pitch their best images up against members from other clubs in the surrounding area. Depending on the type of Battle images can be entered from as many as four clubs. Images are judged by an experienced independent judge who awards a points score for each image (generally a score out of 20). Each clubs scores are recorded as the judge gives them and at the end of the night the winning club will be announced. Currently we do Battle with Swindon Photographic Society, Cheltenham Camera Club, Stratton Camera Club, Wantage Camera Club and Tetbury Camera Club.

Rules for General Competitions

1. Club members may enter one entry in each of the four classes i.e. 4 entries in all for any General Competition – this number being varied by the Competitions Secretary, giving one week’s notice prior to the closing date of the next competition.

entrants own the copyright to every element of their submitted image, including its components

the image is no older than three years on the date of submission

any modification of the original image must be made by the author or under his/her personal direction.

3. All entries to any General Competition should be handed to the Competitions Secretary by the date specified in the Club programme.

4. All digital images and digital images for prints must be available for use in inter-club competitions and for display on the Club website. All prints must be available for inter-club battles and for publicity displays in Cirencester.

5. The Club reserves the right to maintain a catalogue of all images entered in competitions.

6. A digitally projected image or print that has been awarded a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any class of General competition may not be entered into any Club competition again.

7. Entries cannot be submitted more than twice in any class.

Prints entered into competitions must have a mount size not exceeding 50cmX40cm

All prints must be mounted and clearly show the club member’s membership number, the title of the image and the title of the competition for which they are entered.

Monochrome prints may have one colour added

8. All prints must be mounted (max. 50cm x 40cm) and clearly show the author’s membership number, the title of the image and the competition for which it is entered.

9. All digitally projected images must have a title nd state the mebership number and the competition for which it is entered.

10. A digital image of each print should be provided.

11. All images must be 1600×1200 pixels in size and in the sRGB colour space. An image sizing guide can be viewed on the following link: Resizing Images Quick Guide

12. The digital filename should be in the format: Membership number, Competition, Image title, e.g. 13_A_set/open_title or 13_A_set/open_title – digitalprint. The file should be saved in the jpg format.

Rules for Annual Competitions

In addition to the Rules for General Competitions the following conditions apply:

In the event that fewer than three members enter for any specific competition, then that competition will be cancelled for that year (except the Logan Cup).

Members may submit one entry in any Annual Competition (unless the competition rules state otherwise).

Entries can only be submitted once in any specific Annual Competition.

Entries for competitions that feature practical night/club outing activities must have been taken during the current season.

President’s Cup

Awarded to the members with the highest aggregate points in all classes of Regular and Annual competitions (Logan shield points excepted).

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